tiegħi / tiegħek

Mine and Yours

Level 1

Noun + tiegħi means my; noun + tiegħek means your with one addressee.

How It Works

Tiegħi expresses first-person singular possession; tiegħek expresses second-person singular possession. They normally follow the noun they qualify. An identified possessed noun commonly carries the definite article.

Compare il-ktieb tiegħek, ‘your book’, with il-karti tiegħek, ‘your sheets of paper’. Both address one person, although the possessed nouns differ in gender and number. The possessive identifies that person rather than agreeing with the item. In English, its rendering can be ‘my/your’ with a noun or ‘mine/yours’ when possession is stated independently.

Learn the complete written forms, including għ and ie. Some nouns, especially body-part and relationship nouns, also permit attached possessive suffixes with lexical stem adjustments. For example, missieri means ‘my father’. This alternative does not justify attaching one suffix to every noun.

Examples (3)

  1. il-karta tiegħi

    my sheet of paper

    Possessive noun-phrase fragment identifying the speaker.

  2. il-ktieb tiegħek

    your book

    Possessive noun-phrase fragment addressing one person.

  3. il-karti tiegħek

    your sheets of paper

    Plural possessed items retain the same singular-addressee possessive.

How It Connects

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tiegħi / tiegħekLevel 1Mine and Yours

Learn This First

Introduce postnominal personal possession by holding the owner constant while changing the possessed item, as in il-ktieb tiegħek and il-karti tiegħek.